Leonard Kirk

Leonard Kirk
Kirk in June 2011
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	JSA, Agents of Atlas, Supergirl
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Leonard Kirk is an American-born comic book artist living in Canada. He has worked on such properties as Supergirl, JSA, Star Trek, Batman, and Witchblade. Currently Kirk is exclusively signed for Marvel Comics.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Kirk at the 2008 New York Comic Convention

Kirk first broke into the comics field pencilling issue #5 of the Malibu Comics title Dinosaurs for Hire and issue #1 of Captain Canuck vol.2. He then went on to pencil Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comics for Malibu.

In 1995, he began working with Marvel, penciling the Ultragirl miniseries.

In 1997, he began a long association with DC Comics, beginning with a nearly 60 issue run on the Peter David written Supergirl series. Following that, he penciled the Dan Jolley written Bloodhound, which was canceled in under the year.

He penciled the Fred Van Lente written Scorpion story in the Marvel anthology title Amazing Fantasy. Following that, he illustrated the acclaimed^{[citation needed]} humorous miniseries, Freshmen, written by Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov, for Top Cow.

He returned for a year to work at DC, filling in on Aquaman and doing the layouts in Detective Comics' "One Year Later" storyline Face the Face that ran through both Batman and Detective Comics.

Later in 2006, Kirk signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics,^{[citation needed]} his first project being a six issue Jeff Parker written Agents of Atlas miniseries, which included Wakandan-born S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Derek Khanata from the Scorpion story he penciled in Amazing Fantasy. Marvel has proceeded to assign him to pencil Marvel Adventures: The Avengers (from issue #13 onwards), Spiderman Family, and a fill-in for the World War Hulk storyline in The Incredible Hulk #108.

Kirk's most recent projects including providing the art for Captain Britain and MI: 13, written by Paul Cornell and starting in May 2008.

Bibliography

Interior pencil art includes:

DC Comics

• Aquaman #34-38
• Batman #651-654
• Bloodhound #1-8, 10
• Deadman: Dead Again #1, 3, 5
• Detective Comics #817-820
• H.E.R.O. #12-14 (with writer Will Pfeifer, 2004)
• JSA #33-37, 40-45, 48-51, 74-75
• Legion of Super Heroes (vol. 4) #4
• Supergirl (vol. 3) #10, 13-31, 34-65, 68-70, 72-74

Marvel Comics

• Agents of Atlas #1-6 (2006)
• Amazing Fantasy #7-12 (2005)
• Captain Britain and MI: 13 #1-ongoing (with Paul Cornell, (May 2008-July 2009):
  • Secret Invasion (collects Captain Britain and MI: 13 #1-4, 104 pages, Panini Comics, January 2009, ISBN 1846534070, Marvel Comics, March 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3344-5)
  • Hell Comes To Birmingham (collects Captain Britain and MI: 13 #5-9, 120 pages, Panini Comics, June 2009, ISBN 1846534232, Marvel Comics, July 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3345-3)
  • Vampire State (collects Captain Britain and MI: 13 #10-15 + annual #1, 184 pages, Marvel Comics, October 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3952-4)
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1-3 (with Paul Cornell, September–October 2009, hardcover, December 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4230-4)
• Dark X-Men (with Paul Cornell, #1-5 (limited series), January 2010-ongoing, premiere hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4526-5)
• Ultragirl #1-3

Other publishers

• Dinosaurs for Hire #5-12 (Malibu Comics)
• Freshmen #1-6 (Image Comics)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #9-25, 28, 31 (Malibu Comics)
• Switchblade (Silverline) #1-2
• Witchblade #71 (Image Comics)

References

• Leonard Kirk at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Leonard Kirk's Blog
• 2003 Interview